1. limiter, clipper -- ((electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform); "a limiter introduces amplitude distortion")
2. clipper, clipper ship -- (a fast sailing ship used in former times)
3. clipper -- (shears for cutting grass or shrubbery (often used in the plural))
4. clipper -- (scissors for cutting hair or finger nails (often used in the plural))

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The Yankee clipper is under her sky-sails, she cuts the sparkle and scud. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

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This time the clerks evinced no inclination to laugh, such a real ear clipper did Porthos appear. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere

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Manhattan steamboats and clippers taking the measure of all seas. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

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The Gloria Scott had been in the Chinese tea-trade, but she was an old-fashioned, heavy-bowed, broad-beamed craft, and the new clippers had cut her out. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Alongside them were clippers of all sizes, steamers of all nationalities, and the steamboats, with several decks rising one above the other, which ply on the Sacramento and its tributaries. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne